Vembu Technologies, through its Vembu Pro Online Backup and Cloud Storage Services offerings, enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) to provide a cost-effective and fully brandable online backup service to their SMB Customers. Vembu, which has over 2000 service provider partners worldwide, is headquartered at Chennai, India.

Vembu Pro provides a business-focused online backup service. Under the hood of Vembu Pro is Vembu’s StoreGrid online backup software, which can be hosted on the service provider’s own data centers and can be offered as a fully managed online backup service to business customers.

Before moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vembu focused solely on licensing the StoreGrid software to service providers who hosted it themselves in their data centers and offered their own online backup service to clients. But Vembu leadership knew that growing its business would require a highly scalable and redundant infrastructure - one that would help them keep costs low as the company grew.

Vembu chose AWS as its cloud services provider primarily for the near-infinite on-demand scalability potential of both the AWS computing and storage infrastructures. The AWS pay-as-you-go utility pricing also helped make AWS a compelling choice, as it eliminates the capital spending associated with building an infrastructure.

“Vembu Pro Online Backup Services would not have been possible without the AWS ‘pay-as-you-go’ pricing model,” says Sekar Vembu, CEO of Vembu Technologies.

Using the AWS Cloud to host Vembu Pro online backup services reduces the resources required for maintaining servers with storage infrastructure. ”Amazon’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) and data center security provide us with enough clout to compete with the best in business without a similar upfront cost,” Vembu says.

AWS has also decreased the time required to host Vembu’s complex solution across two continents (North America and Europe) and offers them the opportunity to add two more continents (Asia and Australia) on just a day’s notice.

In the future, Vembu plans to use the following additional AWS features:

Vembu highly recommends Amazon’s forums and support resources, where discussions are constant and active. Vembu found the AWS team and the abundant AWS developer community very helpful in finding the right resolutions for specific issues.

“We admire the way AWS is evolving,” says Sekar Vembu. “At Vembu, we are truly impressed with Amazon’s industry-leading continuous innovation around cloud computing infrastructure. Hosting Vembu Pro Online Backup Service in the AWS Cloud has tremendously increased the breadth of the market that we are addressing. It is not just the technology; we have been amazed by the responsiveness and the thoroughness of the people we have interacted with in the AWS team – from the AWS evangelist to the business development team. It’s been a pleasure working with them.”